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Happy New Year!
A very special thank you to all of you who supported us throughout the past year. Our community is full of talented people who generously share their time to make our library great.
Recently one of our patrons, Louie Wiegert, donated a beautifully restored 6 foot wooden toboggan. The Friends are having a silent auction to raise money for the library. Look for the toboggan downstairs in our Bookcellar and if you would like to make a bid you can do so at the library circulation desk.
Once again, thanks for a wonderful year.
Ann Sarrantonio
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A Brand New Pole For A Grand Old Flag
As a new year unfurls before us, we cannot say goodbye to the old one without acknowledging the latest prominent addition to the library’s grounds and how it came about.
I speak of our new flagpole, that not only lends the Rosendale Public Library a splendid visual aspect as a public institution, but also stands as a testament to what individuals can give back to their community.
I’d proposed the idea at a board meeting years ago, but it remained no more than a concept on paper until Luke Lazin, of local Boy Scout Troop 17, stepped up to the plate to take on the task. The flagpole was procured and installed as a community service commitment that will go toward earning his Eagle Scout requirements. Working with the library to determine style, size, and placement, he set to work. Through the summer and fall, Luke recruited a team of volunteers from among his friends and fellow scouts to raise funds for the materials, perform the installation and then landscape the area around the pole. A walkway was constructed around the pole, providing a secondary path from the parking lot toward the entrance, where he and his team also installed an underground drainage pipe to steer rainwater away from the library’s foundation. The flagpole is even topped-off with a solar-powered light to illuminates the flag at night, in keeping with proper flag etiquette.
Many patrons have remarked on how nice it looks, to which we reply “thank you”, but the real thanks goes out to Luke Lazin and his crew for their hard work and generosity.
-Carl Welden
Rosendale Library Board, Physical Plant Chair
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ENCORE Search Tool Tips
Some hints for working with the new on-line public catalog ENCORE
To get to the new on-line public catalog ENCORE, start at the Rosendale Library home page, rosendalelibrary.org, and click on “Public Library Catalog” on the far right. Click on “Click Here” to be redirected to the new catalog.
The first page of the new “Public Library Catalog” looks quite different from the old one. There is only one box for searches, and above it three tabs: “Catalog”, Catalog and Articles” and “Articles”.
The “Catalog” tab, the default search, works as a keyword search, just like a Google search. It will probably be easiest to put both the author’s name and key words of the title into this search, especially for authors with common names, a large number of publications, or a title with just common words in it. For example, say are looking for the book Legacy by Danielle Steel. If you just put in “Danielle Steel” you will get hundreds of hits, and if you just put in “Legacy” you will get literally thousands of hits. But if you put in “Danielle Steel Legacy” you would get just what you wanted, or at least narrow the possibilities down to just a few. The order of the words is unimportant, and capitalization in not necessary. Usually just the last name of the author will be necessary—here Danielle was added, because Steel also is a common noun, and “steel legacy” will give you several false hits, including a book about trains! You can leave out very common words in the title” Danielle Steels’ Matters of the Heart can be found searching for “danielle steel matters heart”.
A keyword search picks up on any word in the item’s record. For instance if you want the dvd version of a book you can also add “dvd” to further narrow down your search, for example “Hobbit dvd”.
You can also use the Advanced Search option where you put in the author and title and other information (language, location, children’s books, etc.) into separate fields. This may seem more familiar to some people, but I think once you get used to keyword searching you will probably find it easier to use for most searches.
The “Articles” tab is a whole new resource. Here you can search for articles in a database that includes thousands of newspapers, journals, broadcasts and other sources not found in the MHLS catalog. I tried “Rosendale” as a search term and came up with 892 hits! Most of them were not about our Rosendale, of course, but several were. Here it would be wise to limit the search a little more, since a key word search also gives people’s names, and the names of other places named Rosendale. (And there are more of these than you would think!). Searching on “Rosendale NY” limits the hits to only about thirty. While you may get some false hits, this is a still a fun option to play with! You will need to have your barcode and pin number to access these resources. If you don’t have a pin number, just call us at the library and we will set you up.
To get to “Check Your Record” from the Public Library page click on “login” above the MHLS logo in the upper right hand corner or under “search tools”, then go to “search tools” and click on your name. You can no longer order materials or view the catalog through the “Check Your Record” button on the Rosendale Library home web page, but you can still see which items you have out and when they’re due, your outstanding holds and your reading history.
If you have saved the catalog as in a bookmark you will probably have to re-mark it.
If you have any questions, please call us.
Happy searching!
Linda Tantillo
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Display of Commitment
A traditional Friendship Quilt hangs above the arch in the Rosendale Library. This quilt was created in 2008 to celebrate 50 years of service by the library beginning in 1958.
Geometric squares, signed with the names of those who acknowledged the library’s past service to the community, are also a sign of commitment to the future. The quilt, sometimes called a Tything Quilt or an Album Quilt, is made up of 76 tiles in navy blue, purple, pink and green. The center of the quilt depicts a sketch of the restored library by architect Albert E. Milliken.
The quilting idea was initiated by Linda Tantillo and supported by the Friends of the Rosendale Library as a way to mark the dedication of patrons, supporters and library personnel. Over a period of two years a committee of Friends of the Rosendale Library made the squares, which were pieced together by Carol Campion and machine quilted by Eileen Brophy. Signers of the quilt made a small monetary donation but their biggest contribution was a generated interest about the library.
This simple display of commitment inspires future service to the library as the Rosendale Library continues to serve this community in the year 2015 and beyond.
Respectfully submitted,
Kathleen Wiacek
Trustee of the Rosendale Library
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Winter Book
Discussion
The Friends will be hosting a discussion of The Book of Unknown Americans by Christina Henriquez on February 22, 2015 at the library from 2-3:30. This timely book is a chorus of immigrant voices telling their individual stories of coming and living in the United States. “ [the book] is at its most powerful not when it’s giving us a documentary like look at immigrant life in one Delaware (yes, Delaware) town, but when it’s chronicling the lives of its two central characters: a beautiful Mexican teenager named Maribel Rivera and her admiring friend and neighbor, Mayor Toro. It is Maribel and Mayor’s star-crossed love that lends this novel an emotional urgency, and it’s the story of their families that gives us a visceral sense of the magnetic allure of America, and the gaps so many immigrants find here between expectations and reality."- NY Times 7/10/14. The discussion will be facilitated by Dolores Quiles, Professor and Chair of the English Department at UCCC. Books will be available for loan at the circulation desk beginning on January 12, 2015. We hope you will join us for a lively discussion.
2015 Book Discussion dates and Books:
April 12 - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Oct. 25 - Orphan Train by Christina Kline.
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